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Moon dust could be fired into space to shade the Earth from the Sun’s rays and stop global warming, scientists have concluded.
The radical solution might sound extreme, but astrophysicists have calculated that it could reduce solar radiation by one to two per cent, enough to stop climate change.
Although launching vast quantities of dust from Earth would be too expensive, mining moon dust for the task could be achievable, they argue.
The proposal involves shooting lunar dust from a platform on the surface of the Moon towards the Sun. The team found that when fired at the correct trajectory, the dust would scatter effectively into space and work as a sun shield.
“It is amazing to contemplate how moon dust - which took over four billion years to generate - might help slow the rise in the Earth’s temperature, a problem that took us less than 300 years to produce,” said Scott Kenyon from the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
“It is astounding that the Sun, Earth, and Moon are in just the right configuration to enable this kind of climate mitigation strategy.”
‘Possible game changer for critical problem’
The team stumbled across the idea while studying planet formation around distant stars.
Planet formation is a messy process that kicks up astronomical dust, forming rings around host stars, and partly blocking out the radiation.
Moon dust fired into space could help stop global warming
Astrophysicists say the radical solution may reduce solar radiation by one to two per cent
Moon dust fired into space could help stop global warming
Very interesting proposition they're making. Do you believe that it could reduce the solar energy reaching the earth?
Moon dust fired into space could help stop global warming
Astrophysicists say the radical solution may reduce solar radiation by one to two per cent
Moon dust fired into space could help stop global warming
Very interesting proposition they're making. Do you believe that it could reduce the solar energy reaching the earth?
Read part of it but hit a pay wall. What I read seems to point to some study group funded by some government climate change bureaucratic money pot.Moon dust fired into space could help stop global warming
Astrophysicists say the radical solution may reduce solar radiation by one to two per cent
Moon dust fired into space could help stop global warming
Very interesting proposition they're making. Do you believe that it could reduce the solar energy reaching the earth?
You Global Warming Doomsday Cult dupes are completely detached from reality.Moon dust fired into space could help stop global warming
Astrophysicists say the radical solution may reduce solar radiation by one to two per cent
Moon dust fired into space could help stop global warming
Very interesting proposition they're making. Do you believe that it could reduce the solar energy reaching the earth?
That's an even worse idea than blanketing the earth with solar panels.Moon dust fired into space could help stop global warming
Astrophysicists say the radical solution may reduce solar radiation by one to two per cent
Moon dust fired into space could help stop global warming
Very interesting proposition they're making. Do you believe that it could reduce the solar energy reaching the earth?
Moon dust fired into space could help stop global warming
Astrophysicists say the radical solution may reduce solar radiation by one to two per cent
Moon dust fired into space could help stop global warming
Very interesting proposition they're making. Do you believe that it could reduce the solar energy reaching the earth?
Since Global Warming isn’t all that serious, throwing moon dust into the air might lead to Global Cooling and a new Ice Age.Moon dust fired into space could help stop global warming
Astrophysicists say the radical solution may reduce solar radiation by one to two per cent
Moon dust fired into space could help stop global warming
Very interesting proposition they're making. Do you believe that it could reduce the solar energy reaching the earth?
Read part of it but hit a pay wall. What I read seems to point to some study group funded by some government climate change bureaucratic money pot.
......they we can maybe have a conversation.
Moon dust fired into space could help stop global warming
Astrophysicists say the radical solution may reduce solar radiation by one to two per cent
Moon dust fired into space could help stop global warming
Very interesting proposition they're making. Do you believe that it could reduce the solar energy reaching the earth?
That's an even worse idea than blanketing the earth with solar panels.
Same as PV cells but harder to remove. That's why it's a worse idea in the middle of an ice age.This plan would actually reduce the amount of energy reaching the surface
Same as PV cells but harder to remove. That's why it's a worse idea in the middle of an ice age.
Very interesting proposition they're making.
Only a moron would think so.
- Moon dust is mostly bauxite and elements high in albedo. The dust load sent into orbit would have to be weighed to balance against a constantly changing climate load. Soon as that load changes again, the dust could begin reflecting too much energy or not enough, sending the Earth into who knows what worse climate position?
- The dust would increase extinction of light intensity by a magnitude or two doing great harm to millions of ground based telescopes and research installations, some of which are hunting for asteroids which could collide with the Earth.
- Tampering with the climate by blocking the Sun would invariably have trillions of unforeseen, incalculable, irreversible effects on all life on this planet, risking a holocaust.
Not to mention cost ... moon dust is extremely sticky ... why we call the astronauts "The Dusty Dozen" ... the dust got into everything on board the capsule ...
